Back to School

Thank you, Mitra Farmand, for your inspiring cartoon from Funny Times, August 2015.

  Back to School

My whole county is bristling, bustling, busy with the business of back to school.

Tomorrow. But this time, not me.
Nope, I quit to spend more time with my dog.

Shall we cruise the canyon?
Paddle the pond?
Investigate arising aromas?
Observe hummingbirds?

All get the wag.

Shall I bless old lesson plan books

enroute to the recycle bin?
Calculate how many readers broke the code,
their gushing radiance enfolding me?
Thank God for enabling me to work
with energy and love?

“If you must,” grins Tobey, “but let’s go!”

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 “Chicory…The flowers are bizarrely tenacious. They start in July and persist as the oak leaves die around them. No empty lot or dirt road is too humble for the chicory, whose cerulean blue reminds one of the Virgin Mary’s robe.”  

From Small Happiness by Sparrow, published in Sun Magazine, July 2015.

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"In an age of distraction nothing could feel more luxurious than paying attention.
And in an age of constant movement nothing is more urgent than sitting still!"

by Pico Iyer, The Art of Stillness

Blue Moon

Blue moon July’s last gift

Fireflies dot the pathway

August’s lunar offering